11th Nov 2007
BPL Prez, research needlessly sullied (NaBloPoMo #10)
Thanks a whole lot, Mayor Menino
When the trustees of the Boston Public Library meet next week, they will decline to renew the contract of BPL president Bernie Margolis, in effect firing the man who has preserved and expanded the strengths of the nation’s oldest public library in the face of strained and diminishing financial resources.
Wow, I thought Mayor Giuliani was off his rocker for making ferrets illegal in NYC based on bad information, but this is just about on par on my Man Gone Wild scale. I can totally feel the love for libraries off this guy. >:(
But I thought *I* was your research bitch?!
The company bills itself as a “revolutionary search engine that does your research for you.” A student can ostensibly provide the site with at least 100 words from an outline, class notes, an assignment or just random thoughts. Ten to 30 minutes later you are supposed to get an e-mail notification that directs you to a custom Web page with the results.
“Researchbitch.com will do the research for you, but it will not write the paper,” the company cautions.
OK, OK, Researchbitch.com isn’t all that new (it’s so cute that the URL actually redirects to myresearchbot.com), and it’s not all that serious, especially given the user experience reported by the good folks over at Webware. Seriously, when will kids ever learn that all they need to do is call, email, or stop by the library (or have their parents do it, which I’ve seen too many times to count) and just give a librarian a few keywords to get us started?
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